Dried Nectarines

4 star rating

July 19, 2007

Chiyo C. 15 reviews Send Message | Add to Friends

too chewy? well chew on this: no sulfur added!

My sister enjoys dried fruit and so I thought I'd get her some some Frog Hollow dried nectarines from the Berkeley Farmer's market. Well my sister didn't love the dried nectarines. She complained that they were too tough, too chewy. She compared it to the soft dried apricots she usually gets from Trader Joe's ("T.J.'s Slab Apricots). So I decided to do a little research. Why were Hollow Frog nectarines so hard and chewy? (By the way, the flavor of the nectarines is delicious). It might have to do with the difference in fruit. Nectarines vs. apricots. Then I compared ingredients between F.H. and T.J's dried fruits and discovered that T.J's apricots were not all-natural, but contained sulfur dioxide. I learned that sulfur is added to dried fruit to preserve color. I'm not sure that sulfur has any effect on the softness of the fruit, but I'd be weary of eating any product that contains a non-natural preservative for its cosmetic effect.

Chiyo C.'s keywords: dried fruit, fruit

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